Memorable 3: 4 defeat at Liverpool: The myth has Anfield Dortmund … – Tagesspiegel

Now strikes again the hour of kitchen psychologists and coffee grounds reader. Jürgen Klopp has felled alone Borussia Dortmund, are claiming the coach know his ex-team just too good. Klopp had Liverpool infected with his emotions and so on. 4: 3 gewuppt in stoppage time and the semi-finals of the Europa League

But who the 90 minute plus five watched on Thursday evening and belonged especially one who knows: If someone has beaten Dortmund, except the eleven Liverpoolern on the court or the BVB team itself, then it was this stadium. At the latest when the 45,000 spectators at Anfield in the final minutes again “You’ll never walk alone” chanted and blew to regain lost ground, trembled visibly guests knees. As the Dortmund captain Mats Hummels said his team had “got scared” and “to be impressed by the atmosphere”, he certainly did not mean the former coach on the sidelines.

Compared to the Liverpool fans who were worried, sang and jumped, cheered Klopp against his ex at the end restrained. The 4: 3 he took almost stoic note. His colleague Thomas Tuchel celebrated the three Dortmund goals clearly exuberant. Tuchel has indeed no Liverpool past and was not impressed by the atmosphere in the north of England, as well as his team, in the least play some world champion.

Klopp has the myth Anfield not invent

this myth Anfield did not invent Klopp. This sportsmanship not, which expressed itself in the minute’s silence before the game even in the absolute silence, and this song is not, the fervent sounds in the original again if 40,000 Liverpudlian him sing than 80,000 in Dortmund. Klopp fits with his way to Liverpool, that’s true, but the hope of the impossible has not he kindled, they unleashed themselves and would have arisen even without Klopp. It feeds more from history than by the new coach. And how many spectators in the stadium really see what he is doing on the sidelines? Fact that it was he had beaten Dortmund, is a very German perspective.

Passion can decide games, but it does not always have the passion of 22 players or the two coaches on the sidelines to be. Of course, football matches are not won by chants. But all the things that happen, whether defensive error or dream attacks, fueled again by the atmosphere. She is the accelerant, not the fire itself. But in the vacuum yesterday fireworks would have expired soon.

Of course, such change suddenly a mood yet, Klopp and Liverpool both know how overexcited. In the semifinal they will again need a cool head. And no later than the final in Basel they can Anfield not take.

But every victory like yesterday in Liverpool, as once again failed a German team, helps that each visiting team knees will shiver when heard this song in the final minutes. Whether Klopp stands on the sidelines or not.